Statistical Leftovers

Just cleaning out some leftover data from the pitch-by-pitch analysis from the last couple weeks. These are a couple things I calculated along the way, that never made it into a post. These data are from 2006.

Tiger data

Team Data

If you were curious at which teams made the most contact (Baltimore Orioles, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks) or which teams saw the highest percentages of balls (Yankees, A’s, Red Sox), who who was most likely to avoid a 2 strike count (Orioles, Angels, and Dodgers), the table below is for you.

I’m not trying to imply this means anything, this is just for informational purposes only.

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3 Comments

I like the contact % stat because it is a highly repeatable skill.
It is a better measure of ability to make contact than batting average. Just eyeballing it, it does not look like it is correlated with scoring runs. It is correlated with batting average though and batting average is correlated with scoring runs. I would imagine that contact% is a better predictor of future batting average than batting average. If so, then it could be pretty useful.

Hey, Lee — it would be interesting to see whether there is a correlation between CT% and BABIP year to year. Maybe I should check that out when the new Lahman DB comes out, although I don’t know how to adjust that for PFs. Do either of you guys?

Also, I’m pretty sure batting average correlates less to run scoring than both on base and slugging. I wonder how CT% correlates to those last two?

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Tony de Florida Another nice job for Alex Wilson!
Let's also give a well done for Alex Avila playing first. He made several nice

Jud Exactly...Asmus does these things on a daily basis, just to do them!

Jud Last year Avila was .400 when he attacked the first pitch/ or strike.....now he NEVER swings at the first strike....Hellloooooo!..even

Tony de Florida You must remember, Norris is not a college grad and we must save him from himself. 84 pitches, 4 hits,

Jud Norris indicated that he is like Price in that he does not use a waste pitch. Its 1-2-3...he also said